Portrait of Giulio Contarini

ALESSANDRO LONGHI; 1733-1813. School of Venice; Oil on canvas, 4018 x 36 inches; Lent by the Gallery of the Concordi Academy, Rovigo; "Most of the work of Pietro Longhi, who showed an exquisite technique but very; little intelligence, is known, but no one has noticed among his trifles the work of; his son Alessandro who has the bitter laughter that is perhaps overpraised in; William Hogarth ... the fame of Alessandro, the last of the great Venetians,; still suffers. He was most successful in portrait-painting.; Giuseppe Fiocco, Venetian Painting of the Seicento and the Settecento; (Florence and New York, [n. d. ]), p. 71; "A tone of high courtesy, of great refinement, coupled with an all-pervading; cheerfulness, distinguishes Longhi's pictures from the works of Hogarth, at once; so brutal and so full of presage of change."; Bernhard Berenson, The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance; (New York and London, 1894), p. 74